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[Name]: Regina
[Canon]: Dokidoki! Precure
[Age]: ~6 months (physically ~14 years)
[Gender]: Female
[Canon Point]: Post-canon

[History]: Thank goodness for wikia

[Personality]:
The first thing anybody would notice about Regina is just how selfish she is. Which is to be expected; she's introduced as the daughter of the personification of selfishness. What Regina wants, she gets. She demands it with absolutely no hesitation or humility. And if something is in between her and what she wants, she gets rid of it. And she expects to get what she wants, too. The thought of not getting what she wants scarcely crosses her mind.

At first, you could say she's self-absorbed (namedrop) and it's true. At her first introduction, she really didn't think about others, their opinions or wants or anything other than how useful they are to her. She even tells Mana, the first supposed friend she ever made, "That's why I like you, you're useful." In short, rather than treating people as people, she sees people in relation to how they can be useful to her. Because of that, a lot of times she ended up treating them almost as if they were her servants, giving them orders or simply refusing to listen to them. She really didn't think about what they wanted or needed; when she took something, she didn't consider who it affects at all. And when she tried to kill people for getting in her way, she doesn't even consider the ramifications.

The thing about Regina, though, is that, at first, she just doesn't know better. She was raised without knowing right or wrong. She literally starts off with no concept other than "Take what I want and make it mine." So when she sees something she wants, she doesn't pause to consider who it hurts. The thought that she even should care about that stuff is, frankly, alien to her. But she's never, ever purposely hurtful or malicious. She never intended to hurt people… because she never considered how her actions affect others. It's always about her, and others don't even factor into it. After her character growth, she knows better than to hurt others, and is more mindful of her actions, but she still acts selfishly, and her naivety means she could hurt others on accident. She doesn’t seem to mind making herself a nuisance, though.

She has changed over the course of the series. Through her meeting with Mana, she started learning about friendship, and through it, how to care about others. As she tells Mana, "When you hurt, my heart hurts." She began to experience things like guilt and shame as a result of her actions, to realize that her actions do have consequences.

She learned to take her social cues from others, since she doesn't know those social cues herself. Things in the human world confuse her, although she still hides that behind confidence and self-assurance. And, when in doubt, she just does what she wants anyway, although not in a way that’s harmful. But that's not to say she's done a complete 180 in personality; she's still quite childish, especially when given the chance to have fun, and she is indeed becoming a better person, but she hasn’t let it change who she is.

Because she has such a "Do what I want, screw everything else" mentality, even post-series, Regina can also be described as loud, energetic, and spontaneous. Actually, the best way to describe her general attitude is "childish." That's all because of her mentality; no social filters, just say what she thinks and do what she wants. It causes a lot of friction between her and normal people, when she actually interacts with them. In fact, Mana is pretty much the only girl (at first) who sees beyond that, although the rest of the Cures come around eventually.

She's… also supremely confident. With all of her powers intact, she often describes herself as "Invincible!" She really doesn't think she can lose, to anybody or anything.

She's horribly naïve, too. Because of her past, she doesn't really know ANYTHING about the normal world. She doesn't even know what ice cream is. That ties in with why she’s so naïve.

Due to her past, Regina is pretty much the embodiment of “selfish” love; the ability to love her friends and family more than her duties and the “greater good.” In fact, that’s literal – she’s the embodiment of Princess Ange’s selfish love. But even before she knows who she really is, she genuinely loves who she thinks is her father, King Selfishness, even though he's a sixty-meter mass of shadows that is the embodiment of selfishness and also wants to destroy the world and eventually the universe. Even after betraying him and becoming good, she loves him and wants him to love her back. The fact that he, at the time, had disowned her hurt a lot. When she breaks his brainwashing later, she still stays with him out of love. And when Mana presents an alternative, she takes it, her love for both her father and for Mana giving her the strength to fight.

Overall, Regina is spoiled rotten, naïve, and has absolutely no social awareness. Although she started as a villain, she only really follows her own desires, and even that's something she's improving on. She's starting to make friends and improve as a person...

[Abilities / Strengths & Weaknesses]:
Regina has a wide variety of supernatural abilities. At first, they seemed to be fueled by her being a Selfishness, but even after the truth is revealed AND she becomes good, she still has them. So who knows.

But for one, she can fly. For two, she can teleport. For another, she possesses immense strength – enough to toss a tank-sized spider to the horizon – and resilience. She's also shown to be able to shoot out blasts of dark energy – they can be quite powerful, enough to destroy the landscape and create massive ditches and craters. Those are the more cookie-cutter abilities though; she can also, with a simple snap of her fingers, create a much wider variety of effects. Anything from taping a person's mouth shut to withering a rose bush. She even seemed ready, at one point, to simply obliterate a school with a simple snap of her fingers. As such, her powers are ill-defined and can produce a wide variety of effects, and it can be presumed that she's capable of many other miscellaneous supernatural effects.

She also possesses a magical item known as the Dragon Glaive, or Spear of Light, or whatever the translators feel like calling it at the moment. It’s one of the three Sacred Treasures which can only be picked up by the one it deems worthy, meaning it can’t be used by anybody else. It’s a magic spear that cuts really well and can shoot huge energy blasts.

Her most notable power, however, is to create the "monsters of the week" in the Doki Doki! Precure series, called Selfishness (or Jikochuu.) Selfishness are created by enhancing a person's, well, selfishness, to color the person's heart (called Psyche in the series) black. Then she takes their blackened heart and it turns into a giant creature, often themed around what that person's selfish desire was – for example, a sculptor turning into a giant set of sculpting tools with the power to turn people to stone. Regina's notable in the fact that, out of all of the people shown with the ability to create Selfishness, she is the only one who can draw out the selfishness in a person's heart without them first performing something selfish. As she says herself, "All humans have selfish desires." So she can draw forth even latent selfish desires to create a monster. Post-canon, she’s a good guy, so she has no reason to use this, but since she kept all of her other Selfishness-like powers, I’m assuming she still could do this. But she won’t. Unless she gets brainwashed in a plot or something.

Being as naïve and sheltered as she is, though, Regina doesn't have many, if any, skills applicable outside of combat, unless you count bossing people around as a skill. She certainly can't sail, it's doubtful she can cook, she won't even know how to wash her own clothes. It's possible she can make up for some of that with her ambiguously-defined magic, but some things can't be magic'd up, and she'd be dead weight in a lot of non-combat cases or at any point where she's stuck powerless. She's also very easy to fool, whether through trickery or lies or manipulation. Honestly, she's more of a liability than not for a crew.

....Poor Regina.

[Limited Powers]:
I don't think her general powers are game-breaking enough to warrant stopping them. She's strong on a shounen-y level, but she's not a gamebreaker like a DBZ or top-tier One Piece character. There'll definitely be a limit to her flight and teleportation, though – namely her flight should be slow enough to make any island-to-island flight take too long (she needs to sleepand if it takes a week to get to another island that won't be feasible) and teleportation NOT work between dimensions or over long distances. In short, just dumb down her transportation-y powers so she has to sail places like everybody else.

[Other Important Facts]:
I got nothin’

[Samples]:
♦ Thread: BAM aw yeah
♦ Post:
[ Regina’s voice will come through the journal, loud and only slightly obnoxious. ] What’s the point of using a beat-up old book to communicate? If it’s going to record our voices anyway we should just get cell phones.

[ Regina, no.

She gives a small cough, then continues. ] So I found this really cool map. It looks like it leads to buried treasure – there’s a big red X on it and everything! But I can’t tell where it’s supposed to be.

...You know, if we had cell phones, I could just take a picture of it! And then it’d all be settled!

Somebody come by the docks and I can show it to you. But no going treasure hunting without me! That’s the deal! All right?